"Engagingly about Antennas - VI Summer 2007 DIPOL Competition" - adjudicated. " Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me". Today, especially in big cities, we can see less stars, the same with moral law, comparing it with the 18th century when Immanuel Kant lived, but... unquestionably more antennas. Usually, when we want to see them, we have to look high in the sky, like Kant, but what we see is rarely so exciting or inspiring to be worth philosophical reflection. Antennas and dishes cover facades and roofs, TV towers destroy landscapes. Being the background of our civilization, halfway between the ground and the sky, they may separate people, limiting direct contacts.

Such an air of sadness pervades the pictures taken by Barbara Sieja "Architecture of Cairo" (honorable mention), Bartlomiej Soltysiak "157" (honorable mention), "... in solitude" Piotr Rodzajewski (honorable mention). The common denominator of the pictures may be subtitled "In anticipation of the good news". Within this current it is worth to notice the works of Agnieszka Mlynarczyk, Magdalena Grenda, Sebastian Brzezinski, and Franciszek Kowalski.

Kant's philosophical yearnings have been explicitly expressed in the pictures "The eternal hope" of Ewa and Lukasz Karczynski. Marks of Plato can be seen in "Tapping in the wall" from Marcin Kaminski.

As usual, we have many pictures from travelers - exotic scenery astonishes us in "Boundless world" by Arkadiusz Jaworski.

In the works of Tomasz Kozlowski we feel the climate of old quarter of Krakow (Podgorze). This group, say "Let's preserve it for posterity", also contains interesting photos of Marcel Kasprzak and Tomasz Rys. But in this edition no-one was able to beat the beauty of roofs in the picture "Something new... discreetly" from Tomasz Mlynarczyk (honorable mention).

Birds adapt to "antenna forests". "Who will force us to pay license fees ? :-))" of Marek Koteluk is a witty summary of the forced coexistence. The picture "Break" of Jolanta Maj (II place) is a beautiful portrait with the antenna in the background.

In the work of Piotr Rzok "Unlimited imagination" we see an interesting composition combined with creative imagination and a piece of wit - three in one! (Dipol Technical Department award).

To highlight the beauty of antennas - impossible? After all, it is possible - see the picture of Anna Szczeblowska "Bird's Radio" (honorable mention), and, first of all, that of Agnieszka Sienkiewicz - "Meltdown" (I place).

Thank you for participation, and we still encourage you to notice interesting objects in the background of the sky, not necessarily the UFOs, inviting everyone to the next edition of the contest in 2008.

I place - "Meltdown" by Agnieszka Sienkiewicz

The entries (click on to enlarge)

"Who will force us to pay license fees ? :-))" / " We, starlings have to be very well-informed" Marek Koteluk

"New times, new needs..." Marek Koteluk

"It's all I need..." Marek Koteluk

"Chinese dishes" Jakub Cichowski

"Super mount" Andrzej Armatys

"Corrosion" Szymon Glodowski

"On the shed" Andrzej Sebastianczyk

"UFO-carousel" Jacek Buta

"The fitter's imagination" Mirosław Sikora

"In the morning" Tomasz Sowinski

"Quadrature of offset" Grzegorz Potempa

"Yin and yang" Janusz Pirzanski

"The time has stopped, information flows..." Witold Bianga

"Active link with the Boss" Witold Bianga

"Others also pretend to be in touch with the Boss" Witold Bianga

"A backstreet of the 21st century" Franciszek Kowalski

"Antenna on the roof of the world" Krzysztof Sagan

"Something new...discreetly" Tomasz Mlynarczyk

"A stroke" Artur Tyranski

"TV in Lodz" Joanna Miller

"Lodz - the city center" Joanna Miller

"The peak of Mount Jaworzyna" Magdalena Marciniak & Maciej Piotrowski

"TV tower 1" Maciej Wojcik

"My Antenna" Maciej Wojcik

"TV tower 2" Maciej Wojcik

"The country is changing" Justyna Rut

"Villa Grifone - the place where antenna was born" Tomasz M. Niemiec

"Beautiful vision in the morning" Alina Rybacka

"Among pools of Narew" Mariusz Mikolajewicz

"Antenna in the orange sky" Ola Wasag

"Antenna in the clouds" Ola Wasag

"The Moon station" Iwona Czerniak

"The play of light and shade" Agnieszka Charytoniuk

" SAT- in the bosom of nature" Anna Amernik

"Architecture of Cairo" Barbara Sieja

"Everyone wants to be connected to the World " Agnieszka Mlynarczyk

"The course of treatment" Maciej Koterba

"Clean laundry on antenna I" Piotr Kwiatkowski

"Clean laundry on antenna II" Piotr Kwiatkowski

"Clean laundry on antenna - the day after..." Piotr Kwiatkowski

"At the foot of high-risers" - Shanghai Rafal Rozniata

"A happy family" - Shanghai Rafal Rozniata

"Reserved seat with a view of TV tower - Shanghai Rafal Rozniata

"In the Old Krakow" Leszek Lubicki

"We will watch TV in our nest!!!" Anna Toch

" Fine work " Dagna Jacuniak-Jackowska

" Blocks " Malgosia Karniewska

" Wide angle " Robert Debiec

"Mixed forest" Marcel Kasprzak

" For the masses " Tomasz Rys

" Windows on the world " Tomasz Rys

"My antenna" Piotr Swiderski

"Triptych with street lamp" Aleksandra Tomczak-Socha

"In the old Podgorze" Tomasz Kozlowski

"Bra" Tomasz Kozlowski

"Leaning tower...of Sleza?" Tomasz Kozlowski

"Community antenna" Sebastian Brzezinski

" Assimilation " Magdalena Rzasa

"Multisat house" Sabina Wierzba

"Better reception: bicycle or Yagi-Uda?" Sabina Wierzba

"Aluminum flower" Sabina Wierzba

"Dish in nature" Tomasz Rychłowski

"Looking for birdie - only sun is dazzling!" Michał Matula

"Inventions?" Michał Matula

"Strips..." Michał Matula

"Glassy building" Rafal Jurkowski

"Holly Cross" Rafal Jurkowski

"Two towers" Rafal Jurkowski

"Clouded reception" Bartlomiej Cichon

"Positioner service kit" Adam Nowak

"ALFA space station" Romuald Fajtanowski

"Rainbow climate" Anna Szafranska

"Views from a window" Alina Krokwa

"Watch" Piotr Rzok

"Dishes, masts, and wires - no wave can escape'" Piotr Rzok

"Unlimited imagination" Piotr Rzok

satelita -wersja prototyp - przód

satelita - wersja standard - tył

satelita sentymentalnie - satelita szpiegowski

"Night scenes" Małgorzata Kucharska

"Prince's antennas" Maciej Raczynski

"Space station Zanzibar" Jakub Chełminski

"Faith and technology" Jakub Chełminski

"View of monument under construction - a new Rio" Waldemar Masiel

"Antenna under fire" Daniel Wylezinski

"Well known Warsaw antenna" Daniel Wylezinski

"Miners' antennas" Katarzyna Goraczko

"Memories from Comacchio" Katarzyna Goraczko

"157" Bartłomiej Sołtysiak

"Changeability - constancy" Magdalena Grenda

"Internet in the 'Fortress of Ciphers' at Czoch castle"

Adam Nowak

"Magical Dish..." Anastazja Pazdzio

"Upholder of the highest band" Grazyna Soltys

"In the clouds Krystyna Pazdzio

"Patch of sunset" Mikołaj Ostrowski

"Always on the air" Zbigniew Masłowski

"Tree-master" Grzegorz Bylicki

"Four-master" Grzegorz Bylicki

"Lamp-master" Grzegorz Bylicki

"Moon antenna" Piotr Rosinski

"A thunderstorm with antenna in the background" Piotr Kordula

"Beyond the polar circle - downturned dishes' area" Rafal Laszkiewicz

"Northern Norway, Tromso - colored and turned" Ewa Laszkiewicz

"Antennas on the staff" Katarzyna Golaszewska

"Meltdown" I place Agnieszka Sienkiewicz

"Bird's Radio" Anna Szczeblowska

"Antennas in a flash of lightning" Tomasz Bartkowiak

"Freeway area" Jacek Blaszczyk

"Two towers" Piotr Matuszkiewicz

"Break" Jolanta Maj

"There will be good fruit crop..." Jan Pastuszak

"They also want to know the news from the world" Jadwiga Antonowicz-Osiecka

"A holiday postcard" Agata Dabrowska

"Three looks" Eugeniusz Lawreszuk

"Radio sunset I" Piotr Aksman

"Radio sunset II" Piotr Aksman

"Among the leaves" Piotr Aksman

"Dish of Nature" Tomasz Andrysiak

"Antenna in Sibenik, Croatia" Lukasz Piatek

"Amusement park" Sebastian Bialy

"The history and modernity" Mirosław Stabrawa

"To the sky" Mirosław Stabrawa

"... in solitude" Piotr Rodzajewski

"Luxury in a former state farm" Rafał Kiewisz

" Towards all directions of the world - Radio Maryja and TV Trwam " Bogusław Szczurek